LA LO LI -LAUGH LOVE LIVE

Turn up the Heat

2012-01-09T09:06:00.000-08:00

2012 - 1rst Tuesday Morning HA HA Yogis and Yoginis

January starts with a Bang - temperatures dropped to 46 degrees this morning - woohoo. On this 3rd day of 2012. I get to put on a whole bunch of colorful layers to greet this beautiful day.

I get to test my comittment muscle to show up RAIN or SHINE or VERY COLD for FLORIDA weather. Ha ha ha. I show up and see who else is as courageous as me to get out of bed and meet in the park as the temperature rises slowly to 52. 10 yummy tribe peeps show up to laugh and play. Me and Noah that makes 12 - 12 Ha Ha happy and heeheealthy peeps ready to radiate our enerchi into the world. Woohoo.

We jog and shake and twist to stay warm - it is so invigorating - all this fresh crisp cool air - the Park is truly ours today - the trees swaying - the birds and the squirrels have come out to play.

Today - our Laughter Circle - we play with exercises that turn up the heat. Inside, of course. Heating our core up so we can remove some layers - help Mama Earth warm up.

Thank you SG Julie for HOT SAND HA HA - a tried and true favorite that had been put away in the summer closet. We jump and skip as we remember what it feels like to cross a hot sandy beach to get to the water. And we shake all the way from our thumbs to our wrists and elbows and deep into our bellies - ShaHAhakti ShaHAhake. Woohoo.

We do the Hokey Pokey and play a round of HA HA tag. We keep our bodies moving until the internal motor is cranking on its own - keeping us hot and happy. We shake hands and hug and bang like drums. And shake it all out again.

52 degrees - really? It's hot out here.

2011 - HaHAhappy New Year

2011-12-31T23:11:00.000-08:00

Wow - as 2011 turns into 2012, I find it important to give thanks for all the OMazing things that HAhaHAppened this year. So many blessings of HAhaHAppiness and opportunities to share the HA HA chi.

1. 52 prayers in 2011 -

FLOW - PARTY - UNITY - WILLINGNESS - CHOICE - GRATITUDE - HAhaHARMONY - TRANSPARENCY - ChaHAhange - QUIET - TEMERITY - STAMINA - GRIT - FEELING -PERSISTENCE - DIGESTION - RESILIENCE - DISCIPLINE Discipline - LEISURE
PLEASURE PLEASURE - PRESENCE - CELEBRATION - TIMING - APPRECIATION - ABUNDANCE - IMPACT - VULNERABILITY - COMMUNITY - ADHESION - EXPRESSION - WONDER -ENTHUSIASM - KINDNESS -FRUITION - INTEGRATION -VIBRATION -PARTICIPATION - PATIENCE - EQUILIBRIUM -INTROSPECTION - COLLABORATION

SURRENDER - ADHERENCE - ACTION - ELATION - EXPANSION - MINDFULNESS - AUTHENTICITY - DISCIPLINE

I prayed for Discipline three times this year and Pleasure twice - ha ha ha

2. 52 Newsletters in 2011 - check them out HERE

3. 7 HA HA Anthems - Wow - I created seven videos of music and laughter - Universal Languages that transcend words - woohoo - check them out HERE

4. Stand up comedy - SisterGoddess Barbara and I signed up for some comic relief - ha ha ha. Check out Things that Start with the Letter P and HERE

5. HA HA Song - I created a HA HA song - a vibration of HA HA and peace - my video skills are improving too this year - woohoo

6. Presentations and Conferences 2011 - we were blessed to present Laughter Yoga to two special groups of Peeps this year - Florida Recreation and Parks Association (FRPA) and Employee Assistance Professional Association (EAPA) - one group heard about Camp Cho and another about Healing with Humor. We received Continuing Education Credits with both associations for Laughter Yoga as a healthy modality for stress relief.

7. Laughter Parties - an Art Performance - we had an opportunity to bring Laughter Parties as an Art Performance to the Wynwood Art Festival this year. Three days of interactive ART and HA HA as the best and brightest artists of 2011 came to play.

8. HA HA Flash Mobs - we bravely introduced HA HA Flash Mobs at the Wynwood Art Festival. A small but dedicated group of Pleasure Revolutionaries gathered to laugh and freeze and bring a little hahAhappiness to the World before we dispersed and disappeared. Check us out HERE.

9. San Diego Laughter Yoga Conference - went to meet my HA HA Peeps - Laughter Leaders from all over the World who create sacred space for others to laugh. So much fun. Woohoo.

10. Laughing with Prisoners - read more about it HERE

11. Laughing on Wednesdays - a great big THAhaHAnk you to SG Shash and SG Barbara for stepping up and holding sacred space on Wednesdays so we can get together to laugh. Woohoo

12. Top 20 Things to Do in 2012 to Change your Life - a write up in Boca Magazine (click on Boca and go to Page 140) - Laughter Circle a Life CHAhaHanger - woohoo

and laughing with thousands of HA HA peeps this year - spreading our HA HA Chi and being Laughter Ambassadors and Pleasure Revolutionaries.

Here's to an OMazing 2012.

A Wonderful Week

2011-12-27T04:57:00.000-08:00

This week was so OMazing - wooHOO

I laughed in Circle on Tuesday. And then, SisterGoddess Barbara and I had the opportunity to present Learning with Laughter to a group of kids and their parents.

On Wednesday, we had six Goddesses in Real Life bless our Circle.

We laughed with prisoners on Thursday morning.

And Thursday night, our Circle was blessed with boys

The Universe is giving me the whole spectrum of HA HA chi to send 2011 on her way and usher 2012 with sweet blessings of future generations of Laughter Ambassadors.

ANd it feels so good.

Winter Solstice - the Boys and the Goddesses

2011-12-23T11:11:00.000-08:00

Tonight as we celebrate the Winter Solstice I am blessed with four young boys. Two of them twins - woohoo. Sister Goddess Toni brought her grandsons to Laughter Yoga. We were blessed with the presence of 4 boys - 2 of which are twins.

We did an OMazing wave. and made Laughter Shakes. We shook it all about as we did the Hokey Pokey. These boys (future leaders of our society) put FUN and FRIENDSHIP in the Cirle tonight.

Tonight there was more WSM and WSMboys than Goddesses. It was OMazing.

I am seeing a pattern, GPS. I am open and willing. I accept.

Winter Solstice HA HA - Jail

2011-12-22T17:34:00.000-08:00

Today is the Winter Solstice - shortest day of the year, darkest day of the year.

I was totally excited when we were invited to bring Laughter Yoga to the jail today. We met an OMazing coordinator called Barbara who works hard to bring all sorts of yummy modalities and educational opportunities to the men who are incarcerated in this minimum security jail.

Today we had the opportunity to laugh with approximately 60 inmates. We spoke to them of the benefits of laughter as we shook ourselves - SHAKTI SHAKE - we did waves of OMazing affirmations and laughroared like lions We shook our enerchi some more and dropped it into the Earth and stomped it out. We gibberished and made our immune systems stronger. We even danced the Hokey Pokey and shook it all about.

When I first got there, I was a little scared. This experience was totally out of my comfort zone. I was inside a building with twelve doors bolted and locked between me and the outside world. I also made assumptions about the men based on what they looked like. Some of the inmates were seriously scary looking dudes - with tear tattooes and all.

And yet, as we laughed together and created heat, I looked each and every one of them in the eyes. I laughed at myself - with them - and we had a moment together.

We talked about chaHAhanging the only thing we have control over - ourselves and our attitudes.

It was quite an OMazing experience - holding sacred space for laughter - for these men. It was nice to change the enerchi in such a space and create waves of joy and peace.

We were invited back to play.

Woohoo

GIRL Akili

2011-11-28T12:07:00.000-08:00

Today, GIRL Akili and her mom, Sister Goddess Erika made it to our laughter circle just as were putting away our drums. In fact, they joined us as just as we put our hands together for a prayer

GIRL Akili and SG Erika have been coming to our laughter circles at TY Park for more than one year. GIRL Akili - in the past - clings to her mom's skirt when we laugh or sits on the park bench. She watches us sometimes and observes the squirrels. Sometimes she would let me hug her during greeting laughter. Sometimes she might even try it with me

Today, GIRL Akili joined our circle - she held hands with Goddess Nubia and Mama Goddess Erika on the other side. She even said her name GIRL Akili loud and proud. She put her mom and grandma in the circle. She told us her word for the week in this world is LOVE.

I had tears in my eyes as did her Mama Goddess and a few of us Sister Goddesses in the Circle.

WhaHAhat a big huge heart on this little GIRL - Goddess in Real Life - future leader of our country - woohoo. GIRL Akili - watching listening absorbing digesting SHARING - woohoo.

Thank you Mama Goddess Erika for this MOMent with your GIRL. Wooohoo.

I love the OMazing peeps I meet in this HA HA community and the OMazing MOMents and miracles I see. Woohoo

Ha Ha Cycling

2011-11-15T17:47:00.000-08:00

SG Chelsey and WSM Jason

Today I had the of hugging and laughing with Sister Goddess Chelsey and a Wild Succulent ManBoy Jason. These two showed up in the park and were drawn in by our sHAkti sHAke - shake shake shake - and drop it into the Earth - and stomp it out and inhalamos and exhalamos.

We sent arrows of HA chi into the world and chanted OMazing affirmations and WOOHOOs. We danced the Hokey Pokey and shook it all about. We ha HA ha and hugged and we put our whole selves in. Woohoo.

These young Ones have traveled across the USA on their bicycles - from Washington to Key West - finding us here in Hollywood.

Hearing their story so INspired me - these young peeps with on their bikes and backs - packing what is necessary for survival - seven in their group - seven months on the road. Packing a tarp or surfing the net for a couch to crash on. One day at a time - one foot pedal in front of the other - a new experience every day.

We prayed together - LAUGHing out LOUD just BEcause we can- messengers of PEACE and LOVE

Together - HAPPY - HEALTHY - HOLY

Laughter Circle PhotoSHOOT

2011-11-14T08:52:00.000-08:00

Me before a Laughter Yoga Circle

2011-09-05T19:22:00.000-07:00

This is where I come to ground before a Laughter Yoga Circle.

BEcome ONE with ALL and ALL for ONE.

Listening to the ocean and watching her wave helps me

hold sacred space for myself to PLAY and

for others to BE.

Woohoo

HA HA in the Sea hee hee

2011-08-29T05:58:00.001-07:00

I love to swim in the ocean - I love to swim in the sea

This week I was on an island called St. Barthelemy

I had the opportunity to swim in the Carribean sea - woohoo

I love to lay back and float as I look up at the sky and watch the clouds dance

I love to hum HA HA HA HA HA while I am floating on the ocean of life
I love to hear my voice vibrate through my body into the water.

I imagine myself sending out ripples of HA HA from my core out into the sea

It makes me so ha HA HA happy.

HA HA Happy People

2011-08-22T15:06:00.001-07:00

On Tuesday mornings - these are the Peeps that greet me - they show up from all over to HA HA HA and sHA HA HAkti sHA HA HAke their stress away. In the park, under the trees, they show up to LAUGH and smile and hug.

These beautiful Sister Goddesses and Wild Succulent Men share their HA HA superPowers as we create a sacred space to play and dance. For 30 to 45 minutes we gently stretch and laugh and play and then we hug and take a photo and disperse. Each of us taking a little bit of HA HA and each other as we go out into the World - HA HA ambassadors from head to toe.

My Favorite Day - Thursday

2011-07-25T05:28:00.000-07:00

Thursdays are truly an OMazing day for me.

Every Thursday, I show up by the beach to LAUGH - ha ha ha. We arrive at 6:30 to hold the space sacred. I walk the 50 yards to the beach and I cop a squat. I let the heat of the sand and her fine texture ground me. I am still and present and just breathe the salty air. I listen to the waves lapping up the shore. I open the eyes of my heart and feel the rhythm. Sometimes, I am blessed with a majestic scene of pelicans - low flyers or high flyers - a tribe - flying by.

This week it was flyers of a different kind that blessed my view.

Faeries

2011-07-18T19:17:00.000-07:00

I was looking for a sign. My next step. Wondering where it would come from.

Today, they came back home.

A lovely visit with SG Michelle, my totally intuitive and hotCHI healer, and she had them waiting for me. All wrapped in a box with a book.

I was so excited, I gently fingered the box on my way home.

I looked at them longingly. It has been a while.

I had let them go - passed them forward - thinking instead of feeling my truth about them.

And here they are again. They found me - again.

In my yoga studio, I open the box and they come spilling out - the fairies, the Topsy-Turvies, the Ogres, the helpers and guardians, the lovers and guides.

Having them in my hands again - it's like an old love - so familiar and yet so new.

The book jumps open to fairy dancing -

"we follow our intuitive knowing and inner rhythm.

We let our breath, bones and muscles guide us.
Our hearts can sense the dance even

when our minds don't know it."

So true and how often I forget. The energy dance of my body. The sacred breath. Letting myself be the movement. Swaying. Woohoo.

"Letting go of conscious control.

Dancing from the sacral center,

movement of the pelvis,

because that is our connection

with magic and power."

My card, my guide, my fairy today - HE of the Fairy Sword, upside down.

Meaning: How may I free strength and will in my life and allow the vital force to flow through?

Oh yes, my Goddess - let me dream and meditate and gravitate to that ha happy place where I know.

HA HA Again

2011-07-13T18:54:00.000-07:00

I showed up today to LAUGH
I was so ready - it's been three weeks
21 days since I have practiced my HA HA Muscle

Today's class is being led by Sister Goddess Maria Lourdes
SG Maria Lourdes is an OMazing woman.
She introduced me to Drag It Out and inspired me with her draguation.
And then she got certified as a Laughter Yoga Leader - woohoo

We are a small group in this heat - 92 degrees at 8:45 a.m. - woohoo
We are 4 LAUGHter ambassadors - revving up our engines
and laughing around the park
We shake and jump about and hug and laugh
It is gentle and loving in a safe and sacred space

Just what the doctor ordered

Thank you Sister Goddess Lourdes for showing up

and opening your heart and holding me
and the others who came to laugh with your sweet HA HA chi

Wynwood Art Fair

2011-06-21T23:11:00.000-07:00

SG Antonia (a talented Performing Artiste and Curator of the Fair) invited me to start the May 18, 2011 press conference announcing the First Annual Wynwood Art Fair benefiting Lotus House. Woohoo.

SG Constance (President of the Lotus House) introduced the curators of the Museum and the important peeps who are making this event happen and then she introduced me. My job was to get the press and the dignitaries to destress from fighting traffic to get there and loosen up so we present this OMazing concept of not just seeing art but being Art in this wonderful Art Fair that will happen during three days in October in the streets of Miami. Woohoo.

WSM Djordje was kind enough to meet me and take pictures as I HA HA HO HO with the press, media and Mayor of Miami, Tomas Regalado. We did some breathing and some stretching and some laughing. Woohoo. I made a movie of my experience -

Laughter as Performance Art

2011-06-20T23:11:00.000-07:00

Last October, we were blessed to be invited to be part of the Heart Happening benefit for Lotus House Women's Shelter at the Margulies Warehouse - Laughter Yoga transformed into Performance Art and became Laughter Parties.

WSM Manny created this movie for us:

Here is a review of the evening on the New Times Miami Blog - see Page 2 - And there was our favorite bit of the night, the "Laughing Party". Woohoo - thanks for the favorable review SwampDog.

We have been blessed to be invited again performing Laughter Parties - woohoo - this year, the event has morphed into a 3 day Street Art Happening - the first annual Wynwood Art Fair - don't just see art - BE it.

The Making of a Laughter Yoga Photo

2011-05-16T07:47:00.000-07:00

This is what we sound like just before the picture clicks - and of course, we always do it twice in case I end up recording the first like we did this
one - ha ha ha

Thursday Laughter Circles and WE

2011-03-18T12:49:00.000-07:00

Bird Hollywood and Goddess Jean and Me

I love Thursday night Laughter Circles. Especially in the summer.

This is when I get to see those who LAUGH out LOUD no matter what.

Sweaty, hot and humid - these are hard core total discipline LAUGHers.

This is a tribute to my strong and steadfast - my 3 WSMs and the lovely Sister Goddesses who INspire their presence in our HA HA Circle.

These six HA HA peeps have been INspiring me to LAUGH out LOUD for years. Week after week, they comprise the core group of HA HA yogis/yoginis who hold sacred space for us to LAUGH out LOUD.

A great big thank you to Sister Goddess Eve and WSM David, Sister Goddess Malka and WSM George, Sister Goddess Jean and WSM Yakov.

An AbunDANCE of awesome MOMents - all on a Thursday night - woohoo.

LAUGHter & ACTion

2011-02-06T11:11:00.000-08:00

From 2/7/11 LAUGH, LOVE LIVE Newsletter (Click HERE) - This week I cHAhahAllenged myself ...

Sometimes, my brain gets in the way. That 20% that sits in my head tries to revolt from what it knows is good for us. Starts criticizing my baby steps or what I heard, if I even heard it, hello?

It took years to stop the brain. First, I had to catch it in ACTion. Ha ha ha. Then, I had to breathe through it and do no thing. ACTion rather than reACTion. Very good, very good, Yeah. Now, I listen. And when I can't listen no more, I laugh at myself. Ha ha ha.

I am preparing for bigger ACTions. Babies grow. ha ha ha. To prepare myself, I made an INner shift. I gave myself permission to trust ME, myself and I. To LAUGH at us and WE all ways.

LAUGHing at myself (thank you Sister Goddess Monika) - HA HA HA Kiss . Knowing that I can show up with a great-full attitude and the Universe responds in kind. And a great big thank you to Sister Goddess Jackie for INspiring this video. Ha ha ha.

I am a LUCKY GIRL
I am - I am

LAUGHter and the Elements

2011-01-24T11:11:00.000-08:00

Starting the New Year with OMazing weather patterns - FOG so heavy we can't see across the lake at TY Park and COLD, COLD, COLD and rain - beautiful glorious rain.

What an adventure - providing the opportunity to help me live my words -
"WE LAUGH RAIN OR SHINE, BECAUSE WE CAN"
When I venture out and it's pouring or 35 degrees (here in Florida) I think to myself:
did I write that? what was I thinking? ha ha ha

The soul speaks in whispers. It reMINDS me:
The GREATER GOOD and my greater good
Just like the Hokey Pokey when we shake it all about
that's what it's all about
at the end of the day - did I contribute?
did I make the world a little better than how I found it?

When we LAUGH no matter what - the hard core HA HA ambassadors pop out
Those who hold the space sacred for LAUGHter vibrations to ripple across the World

These are my favorite LAUGHter Circles.
We are few and yet so mighty
I get to experiment with new LAUGHs, healing techniques, and ways to dance.

Thank you my brave LAUGHter yogis and yoginis, WSMs and SGs you are
Showing up and doing the best you can -
LAUGHing and LOVing and BEing OMazing.

Laughter Yoga Thursday Night

2010-11-07T17:39:00.000-08:00

It was pouring this afternoon - temperature dropping a bit - cold front coming in.
Wasn't sure if anybody would show up for Laughter Yoga tonight. We left home early and got there 45 minutes early.

Great news from Sister Goddess T whose job might have been saved by her LAUGHter muscle. She hugged WSM Noah and me and told us we were the reason she was so happy. Ha ha ha. What OMazing news.

I walked down to the ocean. Took my flip flops off and planted my feet in the cold wet sand. Staring out at the ocean and the beautiful cloud symphony playing for me. The wind blows, the waves move. We are singing a song of joy and peace.

The rain that threatens to come is still not here. I feel so blessed. It always arrives either before or after we LAUGH. We are almost always given the opportunity to LAUGH outside - in nature.

Tonight, WSM Manny shows up. One of our first LAUGHers, WSM Manny and I created the NEMO Laughter from a clip WSM Manny shared from Finding Nemo. Our hands clapping - it feels so good - we warm up and get the EnerCHI tingling. We LAUGH. We hug. WE play.

Life is very good, very good, Yay~@~

LAUGHTER & THE OCEAN

2010-10-06T18:08:00.000-07:00

I love Tuesday mornings.

I call SG Christina at 6:00 a.m. to wish her a Ha-ha-happy Tuesday.

She picks me up at 7:30 a.m. and we do the course at TY Park.
2 1/2 miles of fabulous trees and birds and dogs.

We walk and talk and LAUGH. Ha ha ha.

Today's LAUGHter Circle was AWEsome.
16 people show up to LAUGH with WSM Noah and I and the trees.
Ho ho Ha ha ha - hokey pokey - we shake it all around
What OMazing enerCHI we create together

From there SG Christina and I go to the ocean
Even though the waters are cold (73 degrees today)
that does not deter us from jumping in head first
(only way to do it when it's cold)

we swim out to the reef and there we float on our backs and
OM - life is good - and then we HA HA HA while going with the flow
We ha ha ha as we look up at the clouds - feeling the sounds
reverberate in our ears and in the water.

7 minutes later we are racing for shore
We sit and dry off in the yummy sun
I love Tuesdays~@~

LAUGHter & Draguation

2010-10-05T10:10:00.000-07:00

It's 10:15 p.m., Sunday, October 3, 2010. The music is blaring. It's way past my bedtime. I am standing on the 2nd floor balcony, overlooking the dance floor and stage.

My feet ache from the high heels. My face is itchy from the makeup. I am hot and sweaty from this wig. I am way out of my comfort zone. There are still seven OMazing performers before me. I am tired, am losing my hearing and not sure what I am going to do up on that stage. In fact, I am scared silly. Ha ha ha.

The voices start to take over - louder than the music and the ruckus vibrating around me - the naysayers in my head. What's Going On?

I take a deep breath and look across to the balcony on the other side of the bar. In the dark and flashing light chaos, I think I see Sister Goddess Christina. I wish, I pray. I think she sees me. There is no recognition for a moment. Her right hand goes up and she does a HA HA HA party in her hand.

At that moment, a lump in my throat shifts and a tightly held back tear falls out of my eye. Amidst the din and confusion, both my hands go up reflexively to HA HA HA right back at her. A smile shines from deep within and just takes over my face. I take a deep breath and I relax into the HA HA zone.

I shake the tension off my back and into the ground. My fears forgotten. I AM the Goddess of HA HA. BEing a Queen for one night - I can do this.

I breathe again - deep into the moment - the air is electric - the love vibe in the building is pulsing, thumping, beating - like a Mama's heartbeat. I am so excited - dancing and singing to a crowd of loving supporters - what an opportunity to grow. Tee hee~@~

Sister Goddess Christina (a/k/a Joy In Motion) and I - we shared this special moment - a secret HA HA HA - in the midst of the hurricane. The HA HA HA - in my BODY and out of my HEAD. The ego became my amigo as BODY WISDOM took over. Just BE the best ME I can BE. Muscle memory & connection to something greater than Me took over. Very good, very good - yay~@~

Thank you Sister Goddess Christina for the HA HA to A-ha moment we shared. Thank you for BEing my angel in the wings. And the fabulous roses you had for me waiting in the wings. Ha ha ha. I am grateful for our SISTERHood and this Omazing muscle we are growing - together - in COmmUNITY..

Feeling the fear and doing it anyways.

Full Moon Drumming

2010-09-30T23:11:00.000-07:00

It rained all day today.

Great big sunshowers and downpours.

I wasn't sure if we would be drumming on the beach in celebration of the Full Moon.

I prayed for a PHENOMENON.
I tapped on my heart - HA HA HA - to create & hold space.
I tapped on my third eye - HA HA HA - to remind myself how I KNOW when I connect within.
I tapped on my drum - HA HA HA - it sang its song to me.

Ha HA ha to A-HA.

I opened my email and there it was. Sister Goddess Christine Steven's UPBEAT Drum Circle Newsletter. The RDA - Recommended Daily Allowance - for this month was the rhythm of LAUGHter. Ha ha ha.

(Click HERE to see her with Laughter Goddess Cristiana Carter)

So we drummed. With the winds blowing and the ocean churning - we banged our drums and HA-HA HA-HA HO-HO HA-HA... We LAUGHed and drummed until our bellies ached and our fingers tingled. We let the winds carry our "feel great" vibrations over the ocean. We allowed our bodies to move to the ancient rhythms reMEMBERed. The clouds performed a symphony of shades as we banged our appreciation and LAUGHed.

T-HA-nk you for all those who braved the elements and showed up. No coincidences, my friends. WE are the people we've been waiting for.

LAUGHING in the Rain

2010-09-29T14:56:00.000-07:00

I am sitting here this evening and it is pouring. The winds are gusting, the trees are swaying. Tropical Storm Nicole. WooHOO~@~

What an OMazing day. Today's Laughter Circle was magical.

SG Christina and I were finishing up our 2.1 mile walk at TY Park. The clouds provided loving shade from the sunball of heat. It got a little darker, the air got cooler and the winds picked up. A yummy breeze swept through the trees as it started to tinkle. Teeny raindrops fell on our faces refreshing our parched and hot faces.

We walked over to the car just as Mother Nature let loose. It poured. Sitting in Wee Grace as the windows fogged up. Twelve minutes we sat in the car - torrential rains - the grassy areas flooded and muddy. Not sure anyone was going to brave the storm to laugh.

3 minutes to 8 - SG Christina told me. I wrapped myself up in my pink towel and left the car to run over to the pavilion. Lights flashed, a horn went off and someone waved from their car. Ha ha ha. We looked like angels aggregating in the rain. Is this the happy group? the man under the pavilion asked. Ha ha HA.

10 of us gathered together to laugh and stretch and breathe together. The metal roof hammered rain drops around us as we HA HA HEE HEEd. We hugged, we danced and we LAUGHED out LOUD. until the sun came out. Woo hoo ~@~

Thank you Universe for sending SG Diani and SG Victoria - two yummy laughing OMazing mother in laws.

Woohoo ~@~

FLIP FLOP FIASCO

2010-09-19T05:20:00.000-07:00

Day 2 - Lucky Girl - 07/01/10

I was praying to the Universe for a baby. All my cousins are pregnant. I am the only remaining female in the family without babies. WSM Noah and I are married 13 years. You know, time to start a family, skip the pregnancy part and let me have a baby meow. Ha ha ha. Be careful what you ask for. This is how LUCKY GIRL came into my life.

So, I proceeded with life as usual. In fact, I think I had more activities on my schedule than usual. Tee hee ~@~ So the Universe gave me a gentle life lesson to re-align me. Ha ha ha.

GingerMama and I were walking SG Susan and her kids home.We had just enjoyed a lovely sun and swim afternoon. The day was winding down. Doggess-Goddess Molly came out to say Hi to GingerMama. And then Daisy, Molly's sister, came out to sniff around. Daisy and GingerMama do not yet see eye to eye. A dog brawl began. SG Susan and I ran to get the hose and spray the dogs to separate them. As the dogs let go of each other, my flip flops got entangled in the hose. I saw myself go down for the fall - in slow motion - you know it's happening and there is no thing you can do to prevent it or change it. I pasted a smile on my face and went down laughing - Ha ha ha. I heard/felt/knew something cracked.

It's OMazing how we, as women, can just pick ourselves up and keep on going - something about being a good role model to the little peeps that are watching. Tee hee ~@~ I picked myself up - dusted my injuries off and walked GingerMama home. At home, I did what my soul longed for - RELEASE - I cried. No more brave front. I just let the emotions spill out. I checked my injuries. Two very badly bruised swollen shins, scratched up toes and elbows, massive bruise on my hip and some road rash.

At the time, I didn't make the connection between my prayer and this phenomenon - this INcident. And yet, at home, with my legs up and ice packs all over - there was no thing else to do but to Heed the warnings and HEAL. Ha ha ha.

Lucky Girl's warm little body purring me back to health. I am paying attention to the signs. Going back to the teachings. The 40 days. When a new soul enters your life, 40 days to bond and allow the little PEEP to embrace this Universe. Back to bed with Lucky Girl - cancelling all my appointments and focusing on the gift of life - the baby given to me.

SG Mama Maria - MATRIARCH OF THE FAMILY

2010-09-12T06:46:00.000-07:00

Matriarch SG Maria and her Tribe

Sister Goddess Mama Maria hails from the Dominican Republic. She spent 40 years in the New York/New Jersey area. Having made Florida home for 4 years – she's been an active participant of Laughter Yoga. She is an OMazing LAUGHTER Yogini - gets me LAUGHING out LOUD when she gibberishes. Ha ha ha. And she has these OMazing MOM hugs.

For the past 20 years, SG Mama Maria has been a single mom to 4 beautiful children. During this time she raised fabulous kids while putting herself through college twice. She graduated Magna Cum Laude twice with degrees in Administrative Assistant and Human Services. She then spent 2 years volunteering for a nursing home. They loved her so much, they hired her back for 8 more. Tee hee~@~ Today, her JOB – Joy of Being – is working at home – taking care of the second generation of progeny – all Goddesses In Real Life – as she empowers their Moms – to succeed in the world.

SG Mama Maria has three daughters (Sister Goddesses) and one son (WSM). This one generation has given her another - 4 Goddesses In Real Life Granddaughters. Just like their mama, her children are kindhearted and intelligent.

GIRLs KIANA & NAKIA

SG Mama Maria hurt her back a few years ago and this event changed her choices in life. The back pain was excruciating and caused even more stress to her body. She found LAUGHter Yoga while exercising in the park with her sister, SG Francis. SG Mama Maria says:

“After the second time that I went to laughter yoga, I felt so much better.
I said to myself: what is this? Why is my pain half-way gone? Laughter Yoga is
helping me with my pain management. I constantly invite people to join our
circle at the park. I express my opinion that it will make them feel better and get
healthier and they can take advantage of Laughter Yoga. “

SG Mama Maria is the Matriarch of her family. As such, she has a strong influence on her family’s spiritual life. She believes play is important. We have been blessed to laugh with all three of her SG daughters and all her GIRL granddaughters. And all three generations have drummed under the full moon together.

SG Mama Maria Mantra: “We have to be there for family when they need us”

Thank you for being part of our lives SG Mama Maria.

We are so INspired by your gentleness and kidness and kindness.

Thank you for making Tuesdays and Wednesdays so much fun

WooHOO~@~

Full Moon Drumming 12/02/09

2010-09-12T05:55:00.000-07:00

Full Moon 10/09

2010-09-12T04:44:00.000-07:00

Forgot my Identity

2010-09-04T10:04:00.000-07:00

One of our Laughter Goddesses forgot her IDentity.
Tee hee ~@~
A pair of black sunglasses - with IDENTITY stamped into the arm.
So freeing to laugh and let go of our Identities - if even for a moment.

Ha ha ha~@~

Sister Goddess Shash

2010-06-29T19:37:00.000-07:00

Sister Goddess Shash led our circle today.
She had us LAUGHing. Ha ha ha
She is OMazing ~@~

We gibberished anger we laughed forgiveness.
Ha ha ha.

We became washing machines - shake, shake, shaking;
we scrubbed our clothes on the washboards while gibberishing
with our tribe members.

We moved out of our heads and into our bodies.
Ha ha ha.

Breathing and LAUGHing, Enjoying

the canopy of trees shielding us and the cool breeze blowing through.

Woo Hoo~@~

We even had a Doggess-Goddess named Princess
who barked at her favorite LAUGHTER techniques
and entered our Healing Circle, grounding our enerCHIs.

Some OMazing emotional releases as we shook it all about.

Very creative teamwork between Sister Goddess Shash &
Sister Goddess Lourdes, woo hoo - wahe guru
two OMazing Giggling Goddesses newly certified Laughter Yoga Leaders.

They passed the ball back and forth

Keeping the rhythm and the rhyme
to our HO HOs HA HA HAs
Creating a nice flow - a communication vibration

A great big WOOHOO to Sister Goddess Shash who graduated this weekend -
felt the fear of leading her first circle and did it anyways

TENACITY - a SuperPower Laughter gift (thanks WSM Dark Levity Ed).

Woohoo ~@~

Full Moon Drumming 06/27/10

2010-06-28T15:27:00.000-07:00

WSM Yakov & Goddess Rolande

Picking up my drums
heading to the beach
Going to bang a beat
and stomp my feet

Woo hoo ~@~

Thank you to all who showed up
and walked the labyrinth
and howled at the Moon.

LAUGHTER & My Tribe

2010-06-28T09:51:00.000-07:00

McQueen, Shash, Christina, Goddess, Celeste, Lourdes, Nicole, Antonia
Magnus and Lisa (our Teacher)

Sister Goddess Lisa led an AWEsome
Laughter Yoga leadership last weekend.
With the Full Moon on the rise,
this first time teacher
took us through a full curriculum as well
as three laughter yoga sessions.

What an OMazing experience.

9 participants and the teacher -
9 women, 1 manboy
sharing a sacred small
space for two days,
to hear the message.

The message of Laughter & Love
and how it can heal us and
in the process, heal the World.

Laughter Yoga -
getting into our bodies
and out of our heads -
healing from the INside out.

I met nine individuals
- members of my Tribe -
who learn just like me
- kinesthetically -
using our bodies and
sense of touch to
connect with our World.

We are more sensitive to the
physical world around us -
in tune with energies and emotions.

It's so easy to BE with one another
and play and dance and LAUGH
This is how we connected and
got through the physical challenges
of our space and place.

We allowed ourselves to BE -
creating OMazing friendships and
connections for a healthy community
of Laughter Yogis and Yoginis
- laughing at ourselves -
helping others do the same.

Laughter & Swimming

2010-06-22T10:19:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, after Laughter Yoga,
WSMBoy Magnus and Goddess Christina
and I took off for the ocean.

One minute we are LAUGHING,
exchanging names -
driving down Sheridan Street -
ocean bound in MM's jeep.

Tee hee ~@~

The ocean was fabulous - wavy and frothy -
a day full of OMazing clouds
red flags up, the lifeguard strongly recommending
that we stay back so he wouldn't have to swim out
to save us.

We took response-ability.
Careful and conscious -
inTENSE.

We run down the beach
Jump into the frothy ocean.
We swim like porpoises -
diving into the waves
feeling the strong current -
floating on our backs as
we OM'ed and HA HA HA'd our love
Sun playing peek-a-boo with the clouds

15 minutes of swimming,
feeling, cleansing,
swaying and releasing
and just being free
we swim back to shore.

The lifeguard comes running up
thanking us for our courage
and commitment to pleasure
and swimming safe
on the ocean's waves
as we played and prayed.

LAUGH & DANCE

2010-06-07T09:19:00.000-07:00

They came out in the rain
to LAUGH, LAUGH, LAUGH
we sent wonderful Enerchi
into our atmosphere

WSM Yakov danced and Goddess Nicole joined him ....

We LAUGHed some more.

Woo hoo ~@~

LAUGHTER & RAIN

2010-06-06T04:54:00.000-07:00

It has always been our policy that
we laugh, RAIN or SHINE,
because we can.

This week the Universe abundantly gave
us that cleansing, cooling, drenching rain
that our Earth so desperately needs.

Tuesday morning, one hour
before Laughter Yoga,
it was pouring so hard
the skies were dark and heavy with clouds
I couldn't see the street from my front door.

Just as we were preparing to leave,
the Sun peeked out a little,
and it seemed to clear up a bit.

When we arrived at TY Park,
everything was green and luscious
and the rain had momentarily stopped.
Long enough for us to get out of our cars
and stomp our feet in the grass
and get under the trees.

As we slowly gathered to LAUGH,
it rained around us yet not on us -
of course with a little drop here and
there running off the leaves to keep
us in the moment with each other.

We played under the trees and
LAUGHed,
LAUGHed,
LAUGHed
for the World.

We hugged, and HOKEY-POKEYed,
we took a picture under a great big tree.

Just as we were leaving,
we got a rainbow sighting
the skies opened up
and out poured this
healing, cleansing Rain.
Woo hoo ~@~

LAUGHTER & Us

2010-05-23T08:03:00.000-07:00

My right foot 11/2007

Moving a few pieces of furniture in our

creative room to gain perspective.

We started moving too fast and

getting impatient in our communication.

The filing cabinet - I lose balance -

comes down with a thud

a Noah's Ark bookend flies off

and lands on my right foot -

area just below my little toes -

the elephant's nose in my toes.

The pain was so intense -

I started to howl

pushed everything out of my way

so I could sit and relieve the pressure off my foot.

I felt that superHERO strength

as my body bucked and thrashed

with that little piece

still pierced deep

in that oh so tender spot.

The throbbing of my heartbeat as

I moaned: Oh my God, Oh my God.

The staccato pounding in my eardrums

as the waves of pain radiate from my foot

seep into my leg and up my spine

and right into my head.

I start seeing stars,

I'm no longer sure I'm in this dimension

As I feel the shortness of my breath.

WSM Noah says he's never

seen my face contort

so rapidly and go through

such a flood of emotions.

He starts to LAUGH.

He heard the thud (from the other end )

but has no way of knowing what happened.

As he LAUGHed, I LAUGH-cried.

You know, LAUGHing and crying

at the same time.

When your insides and outsides act independently,

without requesting input from your head -

doing their own thing, whatever, whenever.

I'm breathing consciously again - woo hoo

releasing and relaxing my muscles

rolling into the waves instead of

attempting to hold them back.

Noah ran for the ice and kleenex for my,

add to the drama, leaky nose,

snot running all over me.

I assess the situation. I blow my nose.

I see the blood gushing

out of an aperture in my foot

and how the skin next to it was

turning blue and swelling.

And I had a flashback to a few years back

(right around this time) when we were in Cat Island.

Last day of our trip on the island -

morning barefoot beach walk, I

stub my toe on a huge slab of a rock that was

barely protruding in the sand.

And the pain is so intense -

I ...... BREATHE.

Ha ha ha.

Gentle life lessons, gentle life lessons.

Our CSI background comes in handy

WSM Noah cleans the site with hydrogen peroxide.

He lowered the tweezers in and

finds a sharp little piece of white clay -

he pinches and pulls it out ever so delicately -

it slurps out of the punctured skin and

with a whoosh the back up blood gushes out.

He firmly applied pressure

to the site of the wound

and staunched the flow of bood.

My face is doing its own thing as my body

sweats and leaks from all of this trauma.

The swelling goes down as

the blue lump ebbs away.

We cry together from the intensity of our experience

We laugh together about the energy it is releasing

He carries me to the living room.

He icepacks my leg and my lower back

(toe bone's connected to the hip bone....well, eventually)

which is now fiercely complaining about

my unflowy behavior earlier when

I tensed up and stressed out

instead of letting the lava flow.

And today, I practice again

the art of doing No-thing.

It wasn't part of my plan.

It seems to be the PLAN.

Ha ha ha.

I sit here writing,

blessed to be in bed,

blessed to be with Noah,

blessed to mastering the

Art of Do-ing NO-thing.

BE More, Do Less

So many gifts.

Thank you WSM Noah for being in my life.

And for all the LAUGHter.

Happy Anniversary, my love.

Spring is in the Air ???

2010-05-09T18:21:00.000-07:00

I was so wishing it would start warming up today.

Walking with GingerMama in 55 degree weather in South Florida kind of boggles the mind. Mixes up the body pretty good too.

My OMazing Sister Goddess Christina was here with Wee Grace at 7:30 a.m., bright eyed and ready to walk through the park and sing to the trees with me.

We have a Walk and Talk before Laughter Yoga - it gets my motor humming and my ears tuned.

Today, I wore my 4th of July Pants and my Bicycle Therapy shirt. It's almost as if I am prodding the Universe to hurry up and warm us up.

I am still feeling a little queasy as my core muscles and organs shrink back into place. I took off my shoes - the ground is warm and healing - I feel grounded and at peace although my rollercoaster has not stopped. Tee hee ~@~

As we created our Circle and held hands and OM'd together, the Universe left us a gift. As we opened our eyes and saw each other smiling - we noticed a white feather in the center of our circle - an opportunity to set intentions of peace and love and healing.

All is well in the world today.

What a blessing to BE and LAUGH.

What groovy vibes we choose to create.

Woo hoo~!~

And the yummy ripples they create.

(Check out Ripples Project)

Tee hee ~@~

Thank you Mama Earth for the healing & love you provide.

Tuesday Laughter Yoga

2010-04-22T14:42:00.001-07:00

Our Laughter Yoga Circle today was AWEsome.

20 souls joined us in the heat and humidity to send

love and light and laughter out into the World.

We shook our bodies and LAUGHed and danced

the Hokey Pokey. We did cell phone gibberish

and had laughter parties in our palms.

And one of our new WSMs put the whole of

England into our healing circle.

Can you imagine - the whole United Kingdom
in our Laughter Yoga healing Circle?

We send LAUGHter, Light and LOVE to all
our planet as we bring PEACE, one laugh at a time.

Tee hee ~@~

Laughter Yoga Leader #2

2010-04-15T08:00:00.000-07:00

WSM Gary and Sister Goddess Mina

Sister Goddess Mina led LAUGHter Yoga today.
A native of Toronto, Canada, she blesses our
beautiful City of Hollywood as a snowbird.
With a background in dance therapy, Sister Goddess Mina
is always seeking and finding cool and fabulous things to do.

Sister Goddess Mina revved us right through a
fun filled routine of Aloha and dancing and laughing
and sharing gibberish on our imaginary group cell phone

She facilitated our being JOY in the world.

It was AWEsome.

We LAUGHed and washed all our aches and pains away.
And then showered Gratitude LAUGHter to our body.

We went down crying,
We came up LAUGHing.
We released anything that
no longer served us.

We LAUGHed away the tension
as we took deep breaths and
spread the Aloha into the world

We rubbed each others back
and stimulated our chakras
We shook hands in greeting laughter
as we twisted and turned and danced

We put into our Healing Circle
Our Wishes and Intentions for the World.

We moved - flowed - LAUGHed.

We are deeply grateful to Sister Goddess Mina
and WSM Gary for encouraging her to share

Way to Go Goddess, way to Go.

Thank you for being a LOVEcat - woo hoo~@~

Laughter Yoga Leader #1

2010-03-25T08:21:00.000-07:00

Sister Goddess Christina & Wee Grace

We were blessed today to have
Sister Goddess Christina
lead our Laughter Yoga

Sister Goddess Christina drives WeeGrace
all the way from the heart of Miami to
join us for LAUGHter; it is a privilege
to see her in action

SG Christina laughs from her heart;
she hears her song
and shares so completely
It's such a beautiful melody

Sister Goddess Christina brings her
music therapy background into play
as we follow her sway; her vibration
- her JOY in MOTION -
is delightful

We giggle and LAUGH and play

We hold our hearts and
expand our rib cages
and Yell with all our might
- because we can -
tee hee ~@~

We hokey poky our whole selves in
and greet each other with Namaste LAUGHter
and LAUGHter handshakes and hugs

We play under the trees
As the Birds watch and bless
Our ripples of LAUGHter & Peace
which they will carry to the
corners of the World

Woo Hoo~@~

Thank you Sister Goddess Christina
for being a LOVECat and sharing
your JOY In MOTION with us.

Go Goddess Go

Laughter Yoga - Tuesday Morning

2010-02-23T16:44:00.000-08:00

This morning I was a little tired. Couldn't tell if it would warm up or stay cold. The park and most of Hollywood was blanketed in a deep and heavy fog. We got to TY Park - ready to LAUGH and shake it out. The coots and the ibises and squirrels were there to greet us.

Today's LAUGHter Yoga was AWEsome. Lots of energy as the Full Moon is almost upon us. Our core group of regulars was set to go - almost bouncing in our bodies.

My favorite exercise today was HEART LAUGHter. I love putting my hands on my heart and connecting with the powerful engine within. I love to sway and slow down to my body's natural rhythm. The sun tried to break through the fog while we swayed under the trees. Hands on our hearts, taking a deep inhale and then exhaling a big HA. Getting louder and prouder with each HA we released, we built up to six HA's as we looked into each others eyes. Having an opportunity to be conscious and feel my heart - this is powerful medicine.

It feels good to create EnerCHI with like minded souls who feel the same way about LAUGHing. Thank you to all the trendsetting WSMs & Goddessess above who braved the imminent showers that blew away as we created waves of Aloha LAUGHter to send out to the World.

It's funny. I'm not tired anymore. Tee hee ~@~

Adventure 1/23/10

2010-01-24T05:37:00.000-08:00

A great big THANK YOU and NAMASTE to Sister Goddess Marissa of Parks & Recreation for the City of Doral. This amazing Goddess runs all sorts of cool programs for kids. She invited us to participate in a Teacher Planning Day camp. On the days that teachers plan and kids are sent home, the City provides a day camp alternative for working parents. SG Marissa had all sorts of fun activities for the 54 kids enrolled. She hires yoga teachers and martial arts instructors and jazzercise pros to immerse the kids in new activities.

WSM Noah and I were blessed to LAUGH as penguins and monkeys might. Surrounded by 54 little Peeps we roared like lions and shook it all out. Ranging in age from ages 5 to 11, these little souls were OMazing. We were immersed in the moment as we HO HA HA HA'd. We spoke gibberish and sent ALOHA love to the world. We created so much yummy energy that day.

My hair got touched, twirled, stroked and braided. I got high fives and low fives and heads on my belly LAUGHter. So much LOVE. WSM Noah and I left there with warm hearts and happy spirits - oxytocin pumping and bodies purring with feel good hormones.

Children and LAUGHter - what a potent combination. What a great way to unleash PEACE on this Planet.

Thank you SG Marissa for BEing a peacemaking, trendsetting, creatrix of adventure.

Interview #1 - Laughter Yogini Goddess Adele

2010-01-24T05:16:00.000-08:00

Laughter Yogini Goddess Adele

WSM Glenn

2009-10-07T13:54:00.000-07:00

WSM Glenn is a peaceful soul who joined our LAUGH LOVE LIVE Cirlce almost a year ago. He was looking to add something to his yoga teachings on the beach.

He surprised us one day by jumping out from behind a tree and serenading us on his guitar with his rendition of “Who do you Love?” A bard, a teacher, a performer – this WSM is very talented.

He was recently spotted at the Little Bakery in Hollywood, Florida where he hosts an acoustic open mic night. He shared with us this video below.

Thank you for the beautiful vibrations, WSM Glenn. You are not the only one, my WSM Dreamer.

The Humanist and his Queen Goddess

2009-09-15T14:06:00.000-07:00

I met WSM George and his wife, Goddess Malka at our Thursday Laughter Yoga Circle.

They so enjoyed our session that they came back for more. And they brought friends. They also petitioned to have me teach Laughter Yoga at the Hallandale Memorial Senior Center.

Goddess Malka is a body laugher. She uses her whole body to laugh. She is amazing during the Wave as she lets it roll through her body and twirl her around until she releases it.
WSM George, he can start and stop at will. And when you hug him and laugh, it reverberates right through you, from the tips of your toes to your core. Tee hee!!!

WSM George is a humanist. During our healing circle at the end, he will put patience and tolerance into the circle and send it out to the Universe. Goddess Malka (which means Queen in Hebrew) and WSM George always send me the most wonderful emails. The files they send contain beautiful pictures and sounds that inspire and motivate me. This week, I was really touched by this video they shared of Declan Galbraith singing Tell Me Why.

Declan was 10 when this song was released. His compelling voice is captivating. My favorite lyric is: LAUGHTER IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD. Enjoy!!! A tidbit: On December 9, 2002, the largest choir in history, drawn from all parts of the UK and Ireland joined Declan to sing “Tell Me Why” for a Guinness World Record.

Mama Goddess Adeyela

2008-07-28T14:21:00.000-07:00

I met Goddess Adeyela a few weeks ago when she and her daughter came to Thursday night’s Laugh Love Live Yoga Circle. What a great laugher!!! And what wonderful energy. Bubbly and so full of love!!! Both her and the more reserved Goddess in Real Life Moremi.

Mama Goddess Adeyela is the Mother of four Goddesses in Real Life, the two youngest being twins or Iyabeji _ as the Yoruba people of Nigeria refer to these revered Goddesses in Training.

Besides being a full time Mom, she is also a first grade teacher and a puberty rites-of-passage facilitator and a talented writer. To me, these three things are sacred gifts that a woman and Goddess can offer. Teaching is already a huge blessing. To also facilitate a Rites of Passage for Goddesses In Real Life as they enter womanhood – that is a beautiful thing. And then to share the wisdom and experience and knowledge and expertise by writing about. Tis a beautiful thing.

Goddess Adeyela shared with me her blog which is full of facts, wisdom and perspective. I am looking forward to laughing more with this wise Mama Goddess and learning more from her as I start building my own village as I prepare in my journey for conscious pregnancy.

And thank you Goddess Mama for reMINDing me of the wise words of the writer and prophet Kahlil Gibrahn. I look forward to hearing the musical version of Sweet Honey in the Rock.

ON CHILDREN (an excerpt from Khalil Gibran)

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

Goddess of Music and Media

2008-07-13T14:27:00.000-07:00

We have been blessed to have Goddess Linda at our Thursday night Laugh Love Live Yoga Circle.

She too is a great laugher and is always prepared to share her smile, good mojo and energy.

She was kind enough to bring a video camera and tape our session on Thursday, July 3, 2008. And what a great Laughter Yoga session it was. We were a smaller circle due to the New Moon. Yet, we laughed and breathed and hugged and sang. And Goddess Linda recorded it all.

It’s being edited and fixed up and soon will be shared on the website for all to enjoy.

In the meantime, Goddess Linda is the President at Audacity Recording where among other things, music and sound is created for TV and movies. Audacity is offering classes for those who are learning any and all levels of Midi composition and recording and specialty classes for recording techniques and pro tools mixing for film and video. A nice way to explore a new medium prior to making a major commitment. Check out their scheduled offerings for more information.

Goddess Grammy Renee

2008-05-24T13:49:00.000-07:00

One of our Tuesday members of Laugh Love Live Yoga Circle at TY Park is Goddess Grammy Renee. This very talented Goddess came one day wearing a tank top with some very original straps. The fashionista within me was intrigued. And I just happened to have my camera with me. Goddess Grammy Renee was kind enough to let me take some close-ups.

She creates these herself for tanktops or bras. The next time I saw her she had a beaded one which was delicious eye candy, really. Very good, Very good, Yay!!!

Grammy Goddess Renee is a very intriguing member of our Hollywood Laughter Yoga Circle. She gifted me with two sets of “CHARGE CARDS” – LOVE and HEALING – tee hee!!! Each box contains 30 inspirational message cards based on a different theme. And there is a little display easel so you can display your card of the day. The cards come with messages for HEALING, FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, HEALING and SUCCESS.

For more information or to purchase or place and order,please contact Goddess Grammy Renee at (954) 963-6001 or via email at chargerene@bellsouth.net

Laughter Yogis from Cayuhoga Falls

2008-05-13T13:39:00.000-07:00

I met WSM Ed and Goddess Joanne thanks to Goddess Dorothy. She met them on her daily walk in TY Park and recruited them to come laugh with us.They were a little nervous at first but decided to stay and try it out. And kept on coming back for more. Tee hee!!! WSM Ed even shared his poetry with us. Thanks for BEing a LOVECat and letting me share.

Doctor Knoderer

It was during the depression, and I had my first session
With him in that chair that I dreaded.
With a heart full of fear and a mouth full of pain
I sat there wide open and waited.

'"Hi there, Bub! looks like you’ve got a dandy!” That kind voice broke the spell
I felt at ease as he began to tease, And soon forgot he was a dentist.
When he said he could beat me at marbles I vowed it could never be done

So the next time we met, before we got set, We had a few games which he won.
We played on his reception room carpet, Where he drew a large circle with chalk.
He couldn’t have cared less, I must confess, When the rest of the patients were shocked.
He made me feel like a king And my heart was full of pride,
To think this big man would draw that ring And kneel, himself, by my side.

This lesson of life should be worshipped by all, For its moral is as holy as God.
He healed my wounds and gave me strength Not with his tools but by his love.
He was an optimist in name, And greater still in deed,
For no one could have done the same if he merely talked their creed.

So we learn through this that what can be Divine
When we practice and are not just a believer.
And ever drink of that heavenly wine which made that dentist a true healer.

WSM Ed and Goddess Joanne had been on my mind for a while. WSM Noah and I wished them a new Laughter Community in Cayuhoga Falls. And we missed our friends.

And today – just in time for our Laughter Yoga Circle – WSM Ed and Goddess Joanne pulled up in the parking lot and joined us. It was so nice to laugh and hug and connect. Seems like they have sold their house in Florida and are heading back to Ohio.

Safe travels, my friends. Keep writing and inspiring the world, WSM Ed.

Faith in the Universe

2007-08-01T13:32:00.000-07:00

I have learned that if I just put one foot in front of the other and SHOW UP, the Universe always responds in kind.

Today, as I was mindfully walking under the stars, I asked for a sign that I was on the right path. A meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere and I saw what is known as a shooting star. I thanked the Universe for my sign and an owl came to perch along my path. She acknowledged me: I hear you, my child.

What an excellent way to start my day. Very good!!! Very good!!! Very good!!!

My first Laughter Yoga Circle – July 31, 2007.

“I am so excited, I just can’t hide it. I just want to lose control, I think I like it.” Tee hee!!!